REMEMBER back in the late 1990s all the hubbub and the rigmarole of all the Chicken Little's running around warning us about all the calamities that were going to take place as the calendar rolled over from 1999 to year 2000. Y2K as it was conveniently labeled became the topic of the day for all the major news organizations and the entertainment media. Chris Carter, creator of the X-Files based a two year television series, "Millennium" on the subject, As a photojournalist, I did several stories for WSBTV Action News in Atlanta relating to people from all levels of society preparing for this event. According to some of the worst fear mongers, planes would fall out of the sky, Bank ATM (automatic teller machines) would stop working; bank accounts would be frozen and massive amounts of data would be lost, creating financial chaos on an unprecedented scale, causing many to lose their life savings; food and fuel shortages, world wide panic; a complete breakdown of law and order, and even the end of the world. Even many local churches began hording food, fuel and basic necessities as though Armageddon had finally come calling. I actually shot an interview with a local preacher that his church was doing this because they wanted to be prepared just in case. The reporter did not ask him, where was his faith, or didn't he believe in the scriptures? All this commotion was because nearly all the computer software developers of the time had forgot to prepare for the rolling over of the calendar to the year 2000 and didn't include it in their programs. The fact was that none of these intellectuals knew what would happen; if anything, even though many companies did simulations and still they were uncertain. I remember telling my editors and the news reporters that I worked with, that this was all nonsense and not to be taken in by all the doomsayers. My editors chose to ignore me because it made good copy because that was what all the people were talking about. I really couldn't argue with them on that, and like the obedient, faithful, gracious and magnanimous photojournalist that I was, I went along with it; just waiting for the opportunity to say, "See! I told you so."
On New Years Eve, December 31, 1999, I was at Underground Atlanta, in the South Mobile Bureau Live Truck, feeding back all the activity going on leading up to the dropping of the Big Peach. I was on the clock making double time, so I didn't really mind being there since it was an easy gig and making the big bucks. I spent the evening monitoring the networks and seeing the New Year or the New Millennium that it was incorrectly called, come and go in other parts of the world with nothing happening out of the ordinary. Of course by Atlanta time, all the fear had been replaced with the typical New Year's celebrations and partying. During the course of the evening, I must have heard Prince sing We're Gonna Party Like It's 1999 three times an hour the entire time I was there. All the fear and hype was for nothing, except for those in the military surplus and survival gear business; made tons of money by exploiting the fear of the fearful. So, I guess you could say that it was good for the economy.
History is already repeating itself with all the same kind of nonsense attributed to end of the world prediction made by the Mayans, a Central American tribe that was highly advanced but practiced human sacrifice and have long since vanished. Many of the doomsayers are pointing to the Mayan Calendar that mysteriously ends on the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2012. Others that have deeply embedded themselves into the subject of the end times point to other indicators as well; ancient Chinese texts, the books of Ezekiel and Joel from the Old Testament, and The Book of Revelation from the New Testament; Nostradamus, and modern day prophets like Edgar Cayce, and Jeanne Dixon. However, it seems that most of the attention is going to the Mayan Calendar.
I have already seen several television documentaries dealing with the subject. You can go to You Tube and do a search on 2012 and you will find a six part documentary called December 21, 2012: The End of the World? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KGg0BWFb-4 A movie called 2012 came out last year. Hollywood has always had a love affair with disaster movies and you can be bet that there will be more as the the appointed time gets closer. Already, the Chicken Little's and the alarmists are running around, warning us that end of the world is coming. NASA has put up a website that refutes all the predictions that a new planet has been discovered and it is going to collide with earth, or an asteroid of immense size has a trajectory lined up with earth, and that the Mayan Calendar which is calculated in five thousand year cycles mysteriously comes to a stop on that day in which the doomsayers are presuming that is the day the world comes to an end. However, NASA scientists have said the December 21, 2012 is just the end of the calendar and another will begin on December 22. There are no impending cataclysmic disasters such as a polar shift on the horizon; such an event takes hundreds of years to complete. There is no alignment of the planets or celestial bodies that are scheduled to take place; the last being on May 5, 2001, in which science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey and Stanley Kubrick made into a movie. It's the same group of people that are claiming that global warming is going to melt the ice caps and all the ocean islands are going to be submerged and they are using the Internet to spread their fear. Fearful people are easily manipulated and are readily willing to give up their liberty and freedoms if it makes them think they will be more secure. Within the past several years, global warming has been the vehicle for establishing more government controls, to tax carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and factories within this country, to be given to the UN so that a one world government can be set up to end poverty around the world. So far, the Left has not succeeded in implementing their goals. Last year, the global warming, now climate change cause, was found to be a gross miscalculation based on junk science. From this, a scam on the American people was conceived, built on one lie stacked on top of another lie in order to achieve the goal of a one world government. Even though the climate change cause was found to be bogus and has lost ninety percent of its credibility, the Left in this country keep pushing it. With the extreme cold weather, the lack of significantly sized hurricanes, and cold weather in places like the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico have demonstrated that these prognosticators of long range weather patterns based on faulty projection models are doing nothing but making fools of themselves. Yet, as recently as last week, a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California foolishly stated that all the extremely cold weather we are experiencing is due to global warming.
It is pitiful to see that so many of our young people are lost, without any hope, which is why so many follow any wind of doctrine that comes along. The government has become their god. It is the government that they look to provide all their needs from cradle to the grave. They are grasping for anything that they can hold onto that will put meaning and purpose in their lives.
Causes like opposing the War on Terror and global warming have become that purpose in order to live, which leaves them wide open for someone like the anti-christ to come along to lead them, and they are willing to give up their liberty and freedom to be secure. Make no mistake about it, the spirit of anti-christ is here, not just here in the US, but the world over.
As Jesus said, the fields are white ready for harvest which this would make for a golden opportunity to bring a lot of lost, dispossessed souls in to the Kingdom. If you know of someone that fits into this category, try to reach them and let them know that Jesus is the Hope of the world; the only hope.
As for you my brothers and sisters, ignore all the hype around the Mayan calendar. It is not the Mayans that are going to determine when the world will end, but God Almighty. He created it and it is His to do what He wills with it.
In Mathew 24:6-7, Jesus said, "There will be wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places."How often it is that I see people in turmoil over every natural disaster or catastrophic event that occurs, believing that the Apocalypse is at our back door.
In Luke 21:25-28, Jesus says, "There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. Men will faint form terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near."
The Lord will prepare his children for that time. Even though no one knows the day and hour of His coming, there will be signs for His children to look for.
He continued in Luke: Then He told them a parable: "Behold the fig tree and all the trees; as soon as they put forth leaves, you see it and know for yourselves that summer is now near. "So you also, when you see these things happening, recognize that the kingdom of God is near. "Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all things take place. "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away."
On New Years Eve, December 31, 1999, I was at Underground Atlanta, in the South Mobile Bureau Live Truck, feeding back all the activity going on leading up to the dropping of the Big Peach. I was on the clock making double time, so I didn't really mind being there since it was an easy gig and making the big bucks. I spent the evening monitoring the networks and seeing the New Year or the New Millennium that it was incorrectly called, come and go in other parts of the world with nothing happening out of the ordinary. Of course by Atlanta time, all the fear had been replaced with the typical New Year's celebrations and partying. During the course of the evening, I must have heard Prince sing We're Gonna Party Like It's 1999 three times an hour the entire time I was there. All the fear and hype was for nothing, except for those in the military surplus and survival gear business; made tons of money by exploiting the fear of the fearful. So, I guess you could say that it was good for the economy.
History is already repeating itself with all the same kind of nonsense attributed to end of the world prediction made by the Mayans, a Central American tribe that was highly advanced but practiced human sacrifice and have long since vanished. Many of the doomsayers are pointing to the Mayan Calendar that mysteriously ends on the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2012. Others that have deeply embedded themselves into the subject of the end times point to other indicators as well; ancient Chinese texts, the books of Ezekiel and Joel from the Old Testament, and The Book of Revelation from the New Testament; Nostradamus, and modern day prophets like Edgar Cayce, and Jeanne Dixon. However, it seems that most of the attention is going to the Mayan Calendar.
I have already seen several television documentaries dealing with the subject. You can go to You Tube and do a search on 2012 and you will find a six part documentary called December 21, 2012: The End of the World? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KGg0BWFb-4 A movie called 2012 came out last year. Hollywood has always had a love affair with disaster movies and you can be bet that there will be more as the the appointed time gets closer. Already, the Chicken Little's and the alarmists are running around, warning us that end of the world is coming. NASA has put up a website that refutes all the predictions that a new planet has been discovered and it is going to collide with earth, or an asteroid of immense size has a trajectory lined up with earth, and that the Mayan Calendar which is calculated in five thousand year cycles mysteriously comes to a stop on that day in which the doomsayers are presuming that is the day the world comes to an end. However, NASA scientists have said the December 21, 2012 is just the end of the calendar and another will begin on December 22. There are no impending cataclysmic disasters such as a polar shift on the horizon; such an event takes hundreds of years to complete. There is no alignment of the planets or celestial bodies that are scheduled to take place; the last being on May 5, 2001, in which science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey and Stanley Kubrick made into a movie. It's the same group of people that are claiming that global warming is going to melt the ice caps and all the ocean islands are going to be submerged and they are using the Internet to spread their fear. Fearful people are easily manipulated and are readily willing to give up their liberty and freedoms if it makes them think they will be more secure. Within the past several years, global warming has been the vehicle for establishing more government controls, to tax carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and factories within this country, to be given to the UN so that a one world government can be set up to end poverty around the world. So far, the Left has not succeeded in implementing their goals. Last year, the global warming, now climate change cause, was found to be a gross miscalculation based on junk science. From this, a scam on the American people was conceived, built on one lie stacked on top of another lie in order to achieve the goal of a one world government. Even though the climate change cause was found to be bogus and has lost ninety percent of its credibility, the Left in this country keep pushing it. With the extreme cold weather, the lack of significantly sized hurricanes, and cold weather in places like the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico have demonstrated that these prognosticators of long range weather patterns based on faulty projection models are doing nothing but making fools of themselves. Yet, as recently as last week, a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California foolishly stated that all the extremely cold weather we are experiencing is due to global warming.
It is pitiful to see that so many of our young people are lost, without any hope, which is why so many follow any wind of doctrine that comes along. The government has become their god. It is the government that they look to provide all their needs from cradle to the grave. They are grasping for anything that they can hold onto that will put meaning and purpose in their lives.
Causes like opposing the War on Terror and global warming have become that purpose in order to live, which leaves them wide open for someone like the anti-christ to come along to lead them, and they are willing to give up their liberty and freedom to be secure. Make no mistake about it, the spirit of anti-christ is here, not just here in the US, but the world over.
As Jesus said, the fields are white ready for harvest which this would make for a golden opportunity to bring a lot of lost, dispossessed souls in to the Kingdom. If you know of someone that fits into this category, try to reach them and let them know that Jesus is the Hope of the world; the only hope.
As for you my brothers and sisters, ignore all the hype around the Mayan calendar. It is not the Mayans that are going to determine when the world will end, but God Almighty. He created it and it is His to do what He wills with it.
In Mathew 24:6-7, Jesus said, "There will be wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places."How often it is that I see people in turmoil over every natural disaster or catastrophic event that occurs, believing that the Apocalypse is at our back door.
In Luke 21:25-28, Jesus says, "There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. Men will faint form terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken. At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near."
The Lord will prepare his children for that time. Even though no one knows the day and hour of His coming, there will be signs for His children to look for.
He continued in Luke: Then He told them a parable: "Behold the fig tree and all the trees; as soon as they put forth leaves, you see it and know for yourselves that summer is now near. "So you also, when you see these things happening, recognize that the kingdom of God is near. "Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all things take place. "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away."
